kitchen reno: day 7

on day 7, kent built the framework for the lower cabinets and put down some vinyl flooring for our sink cabinet.

my job over the weekend was to paint and fill!  i painted a couple of coats on the upper cabinets and tackled the backsplash.  i tried sanding the thinset but it would not budge.

i decided to fill it in to start with as smooth a surface as i could get.  it worked!  but i went through a few quart buckets of plaster to finish the job and my triceps were on fire by the time saturday night came!

 since it was the weekend, weston tackled the demo of the laundry room to give kent more time to build instead of tear down.  he's such a man ;)  he brought it all down easily and we tossed the scrap into the dumpster.  i kind of liked having a huge box out front that i could put anything into!  going to miss it when we send it back ;)

this room had existing cabinets, but they all had fixed shelves and most of my laundry containers and supplies wouldn't fit in the space allowed.  i am really excited to see this room when it's finished.  i might end up using it more than the kitchen! ;)

 the wall on the left is where our "pantry" is.  we had been using open shelving that we brought in and there were a couple of upper cabinets, but we had the same problem - we couldn't use much because anything that would fit had to be a specific size... boo.  i'm having kent build essentially a wall of cabinets there for pantry and kitchen appliance storage.  should be perdy when it's all done!